Secular state
Idea pertaining to secularity, whereby a state is or purports to be officially neutral in matters of religion, supporting neither religion nor irreligion.
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State religion
Religion or creed officially endorsed by a sovereign state.
Religion or creed officially endorsed by a sovereign state.
A state with an official religion (also known as confessional state), while not secular, is not necessarily a theocracy.
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Bill of rights entrenched in the Constitution of Canada, forming the first part of the Constitution Act, 1982.
Bill of rights entrenched in the Constitution of Canada, forming the first part of the Constitution Act, 1982.
Section 2: lists what the Charter calls "fundamental freedoms" namely freedom of conscience, freedom of religion, freedom of thought, freedom of belief, freedom of expression, freedom of the press and of other media of communication, freedom of peaceful assembly, and freedom of association. In case law, this clause is cited as the reason for the religious neutrality of the state.
Sierra Leone
Country on the southwest coast of West Africa.
Country on the southwest coast of West Africa.
Sierra Leone is a secular nation with the constitution providing for the separation of state and religion and freedom of conscience (which includes freedom of thoughts and religion).
Separation of church and state
Philosophic and jurisprudential concept for defining political distance in the relationship between religious organizations and the state.
Philosophic and jurisprudential concept for defining political distance in the relationship between religious organizations and the state.
Conceptually, the term refers to the creation of a secular state (with or without legally explicit church-state separation) and to disestablishment, the changing of an existing, formal relationship between the church and the state.
Sudan
Country in Northeast Africa.
Country in Northeast Africa.
Islam was Sudan's state religion and Islamic laws were applied from 1983 until 2020 when the country became a secular state.
Nepal
Landlocked country in South Asia.
Landlocked country in South Asia.
The Constitution of Nepal, adopted in 2015, affirms the country as a secular federal parliamentary republic divided into seven provinces.
Kazakhstan
Transcontinental landlocked country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe.
Transcontinental landlocked country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe.
Officially, it is a democratic, secular, unitary, constitutional republic with a diverse cultural heritage.
Uzbekistan
Doubly landlocked country in Central Asia.
Doubly landlocked country in Central Asia.
Uzbekistan is a secular state, with a presidential constitutional government in place.
Spain
Country in southwestern Europe with parts of territory in the Atlantic Ocean and across the Mediterranean Sea.
Country in southwestern Europe with parts of territory in the Atlantic Ocean and across the Mediterranean Sea.
Spain is a developed country, a secular parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with King Felipe VI as head of state.
Turkey
Transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe.
Transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe.
With the reforms initiated by the country's first president, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkey became a secular, unitary and parliamentary republic.